Get Out’s Oscar nominations were a welcome surprise from the stodgy Academy

The Oscars are less than a month away, but there are a handful of films from this year’s Best Picture lineup we haven’t covered on Film Club. So we’re catching up with these contenders in a few special-edition episodes. Today, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky discuss one of last year’s best films, Get Out. Directed by Jordan Peele, whose previous exploits in pastiche set him up beautifully for the job, Get Out surprised critics and audiences, and proved that horror should be taken more seriously by the Academy.